Your photos stay on drives you already own, so there is no storage bill to grow. One subscription unlocks your phone and both desktop apps. Unlimited drives on every paid plan.
Subscriptions are purchased in the iPhone or Android app through Apple or Google. The 14-day free trial applies to the monthly and annual plans for new subscribers and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before it ends.
| Free | Paid | |
|---|---|---|
| Drives you can catalog | 1 | Unlimited |
| Photos | ~5,000 | Unlimited |
| Offline browsing on your phone | Yes | Yes |
| Search by name, keyword, folder, date | Yes | Yes |
| Mac and Windows desktop apps | Yes | Yes |
| iPhone and Android apps | Yes | Yes |
| Per-device or per-seat fees | None | None |
| Cloud storage fees | None | None |
One purchase covers every device you personally use. Subscribe on your phone; the desktop apps unlock when you pair.
Cloud photo services charge for storage, so the bill is a function of how many photos you have and it never stops. A large archive is exactly the case where that model gets expensive: one library we measured runs to 885.66 GB across 190,566 photos, which needs a multi-terabyte plan to hold and a payment every month for as long as you want to keep it.
CachePix does not store your photos, so it does not charge for storing them. Your originals stay on the drives you already bought. What travels to your phone is a catalog — 8.03 GB for that same 190,566-photo library — and the price is the same whether your archive is five thousand photos or five hundred thousand. The lifetime option removes the recurring bill entirely.
No. You subscribe in the iPhone or Android app, and the Mac and Windows apps unlock automatically when you pair your phone. No per-seat pricing, no separate desktop licence.
No. The same price covers 5,000 photos or 500,000, across as many drives as you own. Because your originals never leave your drives, there is no storage bill to grow.
Yes — one drive or about 5,000 photos, so you can see how cataloging and phone sync actually work before paying. Paid plans also open with a 14-day free trial.
In your App Store or Google Play subscription settings, since that is who bills you. Cancel at least 24 hours before a trial ends to avoid being charged.
Your photos are unaffected. They were never moved, never copied to a cloud, and were never held by us — they stay exactly where they have always been, on your own drives.